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Encyclopedia of Exploration Volume III | ||
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Fergus Fleming: Literary Review | |
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Raymond Howgego speaks every European language (except Basque and Finnish) and can also handle Arabic. Of itself this is enough to pull one up. Equally arresting is the use he makes of his talent. | ||
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Gordon McLauchlan: New Zealand Herald | |
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You can get lost in the labyrinth of entries as surely as you can lose your way in the jungles of New Guinea - which, the author points out, had still only partially been explored by 1940 when this book comes to the end of its trail. | ||
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René Pélissier: Análise Social, vol. XLII (182), 2007 | |
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Howgego, is about to complete a work that restores trust to the man of science and likens him to the gods or, at least, to the great encyclopaedists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, times when an author could bind himself to tasks so grandiose that they were almost mythical. | ||
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Merrill Distad: University of Alberta | |
| Volume 3 of this scholarly tour de force brings the total number of articles thus far published to 3,580 containing more than 44,000 bibliographic citations, articles notable not only for their comprehensiveness, but for the excellence of their author's prose. | ||
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Beau Riffenburgh: Scott Polar Research Institute University of Cambridge | |
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“These books are, simply put, the most valuable reference sources available regarding the broad expanse of exploration, and are a rare combination of introductory background for the general reader and exacting detail for the specialist. | ||
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Brian Marshall: Newsletter of the New Zealand Map Society | |
| "This “geographical” approach works well, and allows for handy overviews of exploration activities by obscure parties which otherwise could easily be overlooked." | ||
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Robert B. Stephenson: The Polar Times | |
| The writing is more literary than that found in other polar encyclopaedias: the entries are often captivating but never dry, and in perusing the book I find myself getting sidetracked and learning about things totally non-polar. | ||
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John Wright: The Courier Mail | |
| "...phenomenal in terms of scope, output and depth of research. Nothing matching this has been seen before..." | ||
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Colin Steele: Rare Book Review | |
| Raymond John Howgego's 'Encyclopedia of Exploration' has, in the five years since publication of the first volume, established itself as a major, if not the major reference work, of exploration, travel and colonisation... magisterial reference work. | ||
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Milton E. Osborne: Quadrant | |
| once again, a polymathic achievement, testifying to the compiler’s energy, language skills and his own dedication to a life of travel to the far corners of the earth.... | ||
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John Hemming: The Book Collector | |
| Raymond Howgego has produced another astounding volume, the third in his monumental and definitive Encyclopedia of Exploration. As always, he alone has done all the research - and travelled to many of the remote locations: feats that, in any other compendium, would have been done by a large team of experts and editors. | ||
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